The PEOPLE v. Fischetti

Defendant, Peter Fischetti, age 19, was found guilty of illegal possession of marijuana in a bench trial in the circuit court of Cook County, and sentenced to five years probation on condition that he receive necessary psychiatric treatment. Defendant’s appeal to this court presents the issues of whether his alleged admissions violated the constitutional rights promulgated in Miranda v. Arizona (384 U.S. 436, 16 L. Ed. 694, 86 S. Ct. 1602); and whether the State proved beyond a reasonable doubt that the narcotics were ■ in the immediate and exclusive control of defendant, and that he had…